Editor's note: Stephen Allan will provide updates from the ACC Kickoff in Greensboro today. The head coaches from each team met with the media this afternoon.

Part II: Wake, Maryland, BC
Part III: Virginia Tech, Georgia Tech, UNC
Part IV: Miami, Virginia, Duke

In predicted order of finish:

N.C. STATE

Record: 6-7 overall, 4-4 ACC (sixth, Atlantic)

Bowl: lost to Rutgers, 29-23 in Papa Johns

They're here: QB Russell Wilson, DE Willie Young, WR Owen Spencer

They're gone: RB Andre Brown, TE Anthony Hill, CB Dominique Ellis

The way Clemson coach Dabo Swinney describes it, he spent some time recently learning at the foot of football master Mack Brown.

Swinney, who went 4-2 after taking over for ousted Tommy Bowden midway through the 2008 season, took his entire staff to visit Brown’s Texas program for a few days during the off-season.

"It was a great, great experience for me, because here's one of the most successful people out there," Swinney said during an ACC teleconference Wednesday. "It was almost like sitting down and having the CliffsNotes of coaching 101 visiting with Coach Brown."

Dabo Swinney's 1-2 as Clemson's interim coach but he has already won the award for best halftime interview.

Down 20-17 to Florida State last Saturday, Swinney wasn't happy with the Tigers ability to get to FSU quarterback Christian Ponder.

"On defense, third-and-8 and the guy smokes two packs of cigarrettes," Swinney said, dipping into Bobby Bowden's bag of colloquialisms. "We've got to get the quarterback."